MAPUSA
Pointing to the rise in migrant population in Mapusa, Congress MLA, Nilkant Halarnkar on Wednesday said that the first migrant MLA in Goa will come from Mapusa.
“Looking at the rate of migrants settling in Mapusa, it appears if at all a migrant MLA has to get elected in Goa the first one will be from Mapusa,” Halarnkar, who is the MLA from Tivim said.
The Tivim MLA said that apart from being a good host to migrants, the city has remained backward and can hardly boast of any good public-oriented projects.
“When I was a minister I wanted to build Ravindra Bhavan in Mapsua. But a group of BJP workers opposed the plan,” he said.
The Congress MLA further said that the deputy chief minister, tourism minister and the art and culture minister were from Bardez in the 2012 BJP-led government, but even then they could not construct a Ravindra Bhavan in Mapusa.
“We must remember Ravindra Bhavan is not only for Mapusa but for the whole of Bardez,” he reiterated.
Halarnkar said the Urban Development Minister, Francis D’Souza, who is the Mapusa MLA has had the control of the Mapusa Municipal Council for more than two decades but still there was hardly any development in the town.
“People in Mapusa should realize that by voting BJP, Mapusa has remained forever backward even as remote villages in Goa progressed,” he said.
